bittorrent slow

[Guy Fraser]

On Wed, 2006-22-03 at 18:14 -0500, sean wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:45:51 -0600
> Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > They don't sell you a link of a given bandwidth and then tell you
> > how you can use it. They license you to use *their* equipment, and
> > then tell you how you can use *their* equipment. And you *agree*
> > to the terms when you sign up to use *their* equipment.
> 
> You're right of course, but they won't get *my* money unless they can 
> provide the service i want, which includes a sizeable chunk of download 
> and upload bandwidth.   Luckily, many DSL providers are more than
> happy to undercut and out service the cable companies today.
> 
> It's easy to be jealous of the Japanese though who are so far ahead of 
> us, having much greater penetration of fiber to the home with 100Mbit 
> download _and_ upload speeds for little more than we pay for a rate 
> limited cable connection here.
> 

Yes but they don't have the luxury of living in a land that has vast
distances with little or no people, like we do in North America.
It is far more feasible to roll out new technology when you have 
a high density of possible customers in a small geographic region.